[Beds] Problem with postfix & maildrop

Neil Darlow neil at darlow.co.uk
Fri Jun 3 21:04:07 BST 2005


Hi Tom,

On Friday 03 Jun 2005 15:52, Tom Chance wrote:
> I'm having some trouble with my postfix & maildrop configuration. Receiving
> and delivering mail works OK, but the system is building up a growing list
> of deferred messages of the kind:
>
> $ postqueue -p
> -Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
> A31E5202A5     1810 Thu Jun  2 23:26:02  root at acrewoods.net
> (temporary failure. Command output: /usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to change to
> home directory.)
>                                          root at acrewoods.net

Erm. Sounds like a configuration problem.

Why is maildrop processing outgoing mail? It should only handle incoming mail 
for delivery. I'd look at it from that angle.

Regards,
Neil Darlow
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